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In pg's Hierarchy of arguments http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html , "I stopped reading after x pages" is "DH2: Resp
by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
In pg's Hierarchy of arguments http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html , "I stopped reading after x pages" is "DH2: Responding to Tone" and therefore always unconvincing.
- cma 15y agoIf you read the entire library of Babel, you will find an elegant counter-argument to this. Please don't dismiss this argument until you are done reading it, or your dismissal will be unconvincing.
- StrawberryFrog 15y agoMaybe, but I enjoyed reading all of Steve Yegge's rant. It was informative and funny. And I don't even work for google. And it wasn't really even 10 pages long. The criticism of its length is fatuous and flippant, and not substantive.
- jarek 15y agoExcept Brin wasn't trying to respond with a proper argument, and if he had, a public interview would have been a totally inappropriate setting.